Coosa,
For the off-face issue try shimming the hook with a slice of beer-can aluminum (just make sure the can held a descent beer and not that lite swill being marketed these days). When it comes to SXS's, I'm a bottom-feeder and before I sink money into my latest relic I like to try it out first. I've found that the aluminum shim is often a good temporary repair for an off-face SXS.
Steve
Thanks for the idea; I'll give it a try. You can see daylight between the barrels and the receiver, so it may take more than one can. Will a Coke can work? I'm a Baptist preacher and don't have any beer in the house.
The stock is really loose, and I've never tried to tighten it. I don't know what kind of wood it is, but my grandfather did a pretty good job of shaping it like the original, and I'm sure he did it all with hand tools and no knowledge of how to make a gun stock. Times were hard, and he needed the gun. I will always keep his stock, but I see that I can buy one to fit it from Boyds. I've always thought the gun itself was just too worn out to try to make it a shooter again. Maybe its not.
Thanks again for all the ideas.
